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[Bad News Gone Right]: Ow My Balls Edition

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    evilmrhenryevilmrhenry Registered User regular
    I'll note that "herbivore" and "carnivore" are not as clean of a distinction as you might think from a 4th grade science textbook.

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    HevachHevach Registered User regular
    I'll note that "herbivore" and "carnivore" are not as clean of a distinction as you might think from a 4th grade science textbook.

    Ruminants are particularly known to snack on baby birds and rodents..

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    TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    I figure you got 4 stomachs, one of them should be able to handle some meat.

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    see317see317 Registered User regular
    I figure you got 4 stomachs, one of them should be able to handle some meat.

    To say nothing of the secret fifth stomach, set aside specifically for the possibility of desert.

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    TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    see317 wrote: »
    I figure you got 4 stomachs, one of them should be able to handle some meat.

    To say nothing of the secret fifth stomach, set aside specifically for the possibility of desert.

    It's been like 30 years and mom still won't let me forget the time asked for cake even though I hadn't finished my veggies because "my dessert compartment" wasn't full.

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    XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
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    Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    see317 wrote: »
    I figure you got 4 stomachs, one of them should be able to handle some meat.

    To say nothing of the secret fifth stomach, set aside specifically for the possibility of desert.

    It's been like 30 years and mom still won't let me forget the time asked for cake even though I hadn't finished my veggies because "my dessert compartment" wasn't full.

    My dad is 65 and still uses this logic

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    Steel AngelSteel Angel Registered User regular
    Speaking of animals, the winners of the 2020 Comedy Wildlife Photography awards have been revealed

    I feel the winner perfectly captures the zeitgeist for the year

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    Big Dookie wrote: »
    I found that tilting it doesn't work very well, and once I started jerking it, I got much better results.

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    Gabriel_PittGabriel_Pitt (effective against Russian warships) Registered User regular
    Hevach wrote: »
    I'll note that "herbivore" and "carnivore" are not as clean of a distinction as you might think from a 4th grade science textbook.

    Ruminants are particularly known to snack on baby birds and rodents..

    For one thing, bones are a very good source of calcium and other trace minerals that a herbivore, particularly a horn baring one need, and another, protein is a lot more calorically dense, so while herbivores don't seek it out, if it winds up literally in front of their mouths, they don't refrain.

    I think it's about every decade or so you hear about a lone deer hunter who had a heart attack or accident and was in the woods a few days before being found and had been heavily 'grazed on' by the local white tails.

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    klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    Speaking of animals, the winners of the 2020 Comedy Wildlife Photography awards have been revealed

    I feel the winner perfectly captures the zeitgeist for the year

    mark_fitzpatrick.jpg
    My spirit animal!

    Leeks mistaken for machete spark Aberdeen police probe
    Police called out to investigate reports a masked man was armed with a machete discovered he was carrying a bag of leeks.

    The alarm was raised by a member of the public on Thursday evening who thought a man in Aberdeen's Provost Watt Drive was carrying a weapon.
    I kinda likehate that these days I'm more likely to call to alert police to a man not wearing a mask.

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
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    RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    MichaelLC wrote: »
    It's like a political cartoon for an issue I haven't heard of

    How's this:
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    It's the "Millenials" that make it perfect

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    jothkijothki Registered User regular
    klemming wrote: »
    Leeks mistaken for machete spark Aberdeen police probe
    Police called out to investigate reports a masked man was armed with a machete discovered he was carrying a bag of leeks.

    The alarm was raised by a member of the public on Thursday evening who thought a man in Aberdeen's Provost Watt Drive was carrying a weapon.
    I kinda likehate that these days I'm more likely to call to alert police to a man not wearing a mask.

    That was a very non-American police response.

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    MichaelLCMichaelLC In what furnace was thy brain? ChicagoRegistered User regular
    jothki wrote: »
    klemming wrote: »
    Leeks mistaken for machete spark Aberdeen police probe
    Police called out to investigate reports a masked man was armed with a machete discovered he was carrying a bag of leeks.

    The alarm was raised by a member of the public on Thursday evening who thought a man in Aberdeen's Provost Watt Drive was carrying a weapon.
    I kinda likehate that these days I'm more likely to call to alert police to a man not wearing a mask.

    That was a very non-American police response.

    [depressing]Well we don't have a picture of the leek lover so depends...[/depressing]

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    klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    Our police have shot people for maybe carrying a suspicious weapon before (which turned out to be a chair leg in a bag).
    But I think not having a deadly weapon on their person for every interaction goes a long way towards guiding our responses.

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
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    AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    I present Little Bobby Tables, Inc.:
    Companies House has blocked someone who registered a new biz with a name that contained the right characters arranged in the right order to trigger a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack against users of the service's API.

    The company in question, registered number 12956509, was originally signed up with the UK's official company registrar under the name:
    ">< SCRIPT SRC[=]HTTPS[:]//MJT.XSS.HT> LTD
    
    Its name didn't contain the square brackets, meaning anyone reading company names off the Companies House API would potentially run a script from the web address above.

    A person using the username michaeltandy on the Companies House developer forum later posted: "I had assumed I wouldn't be the first person to use < and > (they are, after all, both explicitly whitelisted as legal characters) and that 99 per cent of systems would already be escaping them... I would just get a company with a playful name that would elicit a knowing chuckle from the kind of people we'd be doing business with!"

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    PhyphorPhyphor Building Planet Busters Tasting FruitRegistered User regular
    No that's not Little Bobby Tables Ltd. This is

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    AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
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    SiliconStewSiliconStew Registered User regular
    Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
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    klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    Save the whales and they'll save you:
    Whale sculpture catches crashed Dutch metro train
    A train driver in the Netherlands has had a lucky escape thanks to a fortuitously placed art installation.

    A metro train in Spijkenisse, near the city of Rotterdam, crashed through a barrier at the end of the tracks shortly before midnight on Sunday.

    But rather than plummeting 10m (32ft) into the water below, the train was left suspended dramatically in the air.

    It ended up being delicately balanced on the large sculpture of a whale's tail at the De Akkers metro station.
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    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
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    SnicketysnickSnicketysnick The Greatest Hype Man in WesterosRegistered User regular
    Now that's a lucky fluke right there

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    HevachHevach Registered User regular
    They're just lucky Spider-man was there!

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    shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    klemming wrote: »
    Save the whales and they'll save you:
    Whale sculpture catches crashed Dutch metro train
    A train driver in the Netherlands has had a lucky escape thanks to a fortuitously placed art installation.

    A metro train in Spijkenisse, near the city of Rotterdam, crashed through a barrier at the end of the tracks shortly before midnight on Sunday.

    But rather than plummeting 10m (32ft) into the water below, the train was left suspended dramatically in the air.

    It ended up being delicately balanced on the large sculpture of a whale's tail at the De Akkers metro station.
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    5ezdydudhetr.jpg

    That seems like a very stupid way to build the end of a train line.

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    klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    There are very few line endings that are built with the expectation of a train going into them too fast. I've seen some with a house three feet behind them, this has a decent space by comparison.
    From the look of it you're supposed to inch in there very very slowly to park your train, rather than get confused between the Stop and Go Faster controls.

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
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    MichaelLCMichaelLC In what furnace was thy brain? ChicagoRegistered User regular
    That's a whale of a tale there.

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    SharpyVIISharpyVII Registered User regular
    There's been a pretty bad earthquake in Turkey which has killed almost one hundred people.

    Good news, a three year old girl has been reached three days after the earthquake:
    A three-year-old girl was rescued from a collapsed building in the western Turkish ci
    ty of İzmir on Monday, nearly three days after a powerful earthquake in the Aegean Sea that has killed at least 85 people.

    Rescuers pulled the girl, Elif, out of the rubble, then took her on a stretcher to an ambulance as emergency crews searched for survivors in eight other buildings.

    This image made me emotional:


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    honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    Man, turns out having a toddler now makes looking at that picture fuck me right up.

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    see317see317 Registered User regular
    Hevach wrote: »
    They're just lucky Spider-man was there!

    Spider-man nothing, that was Aquaman all the way.

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    TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    see317 wrote: »
    Hevach wrote: »
    They're just lucky Spider-man was there!

    Spider-man nothing, that was Aquaman all the way.

    Can he talk to aquatic mammals or just fish?

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    FiendishrabbitFiendishrabbit Registered User regular
    shryke wrote: »
    That seems like a very stupid way to build the end of a train line.

    It's the netherlands, did you expect there to not be a canal involved?
    SharpyVII wrote: »
    This image made me emotional:

    Well. She does not look very well. On the other hand, if she's alive that's better than anyone has a right to be after being buried under a building for 3 days.

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    Steel AngelSteel Angel Registered User regular
    see317 wrote: »
    Hevach wrote: »
    They're just lucky Spider-man was there!

    Spider-man nothing, that was Aquaman all the way.

    Can he talk to aquatic mammals or just fish?

    All aquatic life IIRC including jellyfish, cetaceans, and Lovecraftian horrors.

    Big Dookie wrote: »
    I found that tilting it doesn't work very well, and once I started jerking it, I got much better results.

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    TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    see317 wrote: »
    Hevach wrote: »
    They're just lucky Spider-man was there!

    Spider-man nothing, that was Aquaman all the way.

    Can he talk to aquatic mammals or just fish?

    All aquatic life IIRC including jellyfish, cetaceans, and Lovecraftian horrors.

    He says what's up and a billion plankton start shouting.

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    TastyfishTastyfish Registered User regular
    edited November 2020
    see317 wrote: »
    Hevach wrote: »
    They're just lucky Spider-man was there!

    Spider-man nothing, that was Aquaman all the way.

    Can he talk to aquatic mammals or just fish?

    All aquatic life IIRC including jellyfish, cetaceans, and Lovecraftian horrors.

    Fish is such a broad category that whales are more closely related to some members than they are to other fish, especially if you include things like sharks and rays.

    Tastyfish on
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    Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    see317 wrote: »
    Hevach wrote: »
    They're just lucky Spider-man was there!

    Spider-man nothing, that was Aquaman all the way.

    Can he talk to aquatic mammals or just fish?

    All aquatic life IIRC including jellyfish, cetaceans, and Lovecraftian horrors.

    Well now this implausible

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    Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    Saved by the beluga.

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    Steel AngelSteel Angel Registered User regular
    see317 wrote: »
    Hevach wrote: »
    They're just lucky Spider-man was there!

    Spider-man nothing, that was Aquaman all the way.

    Can he talk to aquatic mammals or just fish?

    All aquatic life IIRC including jellyfish, cetaceans, and Lovecraftian horrors.

    He says what's up and a billion plankton start shouting.

    Still more useful than talking to an ocean sunfish.

    Big Dookie wrote: »
    I found that tilting it doesn't work very well, and once I started jerking it, I got much better results.

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    Atlas in ChainsAtlas in Chains Registered User regular
    Running a train on a whale tale means something totally different to the Dutch. That's a pornhub category in the states.

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    AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    In bizzare news that I don't know where to put, the Sausage King of Moscow was assassinated with a crossbow:
    A Russian oligarch, nicknamed The Sausage King, has been murdered with a crossbow, investigators say.

    Vladimir Marugov and his partner were in an outdoor sauna cabin when they were attacked, reportedly by two masked assailants.

    The woman managed to escape through the window and call the police.

    Detectives found the body of Mr Marugov, who owned some of Russia's largest meat-processing plants, in the sauna with a crossbow next to it.

    Police have detained a male suspect in connection with the murder. The suspect has not been named.

    Just...what.

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    klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    If that isn't a level in a Hitman game, I feel like it should be.

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
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    Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    SE already SE’d it up, but someone check out what Abe Froman is up to

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    FiendishrabbitFiendishrabbit Registered User regular
    Where's the gone right? All I see is a murder (and possible russian mob or FSB involvement).

    "The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
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